Thursday, February 26, 2015

Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) are the only conservatives with a spine left in the Senate. Remember this vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is most pleased.

The stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) was broken Wednesday as the Senate voted 98-2 to proceed
to legislation that would prevent a partial government shutdown.
Democrats agreed to support the DHS bill after Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stripped out provisions inserted by the House
that would reverse President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
The only votes against proceeding to the bill came from Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).
“Democrats will support getting on the House Homeland Security
funding bill. In exchange, the leader will provide the only amendment,
[it] will be a clean Homeland Security funding substitute,” Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said.